sweat equity

"It was a way of trying to clean up the neighborhood, by using sweat equity to get housing."

"We want some money to go into the company to accelerate its growth, and take a portion of our sweat equity off the table."

They've put in too much sweat equity to be bluffing.

Why not let them do the sweat equity and then steal their ideas?

Each worker contributed at least 100 hours of sweat equity.

Now people are willing to trade sweat equity and take the financial risk to have a home.

"These people have converted their sweat equity and savings into economic opportunity."

This sweat equity acts as the down payment on the home.

For some extra sweat equity, Molly turns up the heat in her exercise room.

But it was a shame he didn't care about sweat equity.